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Monday, 18 November 2013

PHOTOS- Woman gets face mercilessly battered by her ex-boyfriend

A mother whose face had to be rebuilt after she was battered
by her jealous 26 stone ex-boyfriend has insisted he is not a monster.

Helen Callaghan - who is just 4ft 10in and weighs 6 stone -
was beaten and throttled by Thomas Day after he found text messages on her
phone from another man.Her face was fractured in 20 places - including her
cheeks, nose and eye sockets - and surgeons were forced to rely on old
photographs to reconstruct it by implanting metal plates into her jaw and
cheeks.

However, speaking for
the first time since the brutal attack, Miss Callaghan, 28, has said her former
partner didn't mean 'to hurt me in the way he did'.'I was told a pathologist's
report found that one more blow possibly would have killed me,' said Miss
Callaghan.

'I was also told
the type of injuries they found on me would normally be found on someone who
was dead.'But I don't think he meant to hurt me in the way he did. I don't
think he meant to kill me or break or the bones that he broke.

'I didn't think he
was capable of doing what he did. He's not a monster.'

Day, who is almost 6ft tall, was initially arrested by
police on suspicion of attempted murder - to which he said: 'If I wanted her
dead, I would have killed her.'

He was later jailed for nine years and four months for
causing grievous bodily harm and common assault at Manchester Crown Court.

Miss Callaghan, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, has revealed
how 39-year-old Day was about 16 stone when they met.He became more controlling
and jealous as he gradually gained weight throughout the course of their
relationship, she said.

'He was unhappy
because of his weight, it made him so depressed,' she said.'I didn't care what
weight he was, it didn't make any difference to me, but it was a big problem
for him.'He was terrified that I would leave him, and he wanted to know where I
was and who I was with because of his insecurities.'He thought I was seeing
somebody else but I wasn't. The text messages he saw didn't mean anything.

Miss Callaghan said she had been lying in bed at home when
Day had started to batter her tiny frame - causing her to pass out in a pool of
her own blood.

There was blood
everywhere - it was all over the place,' she said. 'My eye was swollen and
closed up. My face didn't look symmetrical anymore.I looked like I'd been in a
boxing ring.'

Miss Callaghan has had a tattoo printed on her back, below a
previous inking of Day's name, reading, 'What doesn't kill you, Makes you
stronger'.They have two kids together.